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by southern_cross 7y ago
Have you seen recent claims that scientists can detect temperature changes of as little as 1/1000th of a degree in the deep ocean, occurring over a period of several decades? Are you gullible enough to believe such claims? I'm not
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by southern_cross 7y ago
Well, if they're old enough then they probably either experienced first-hand (or heard first-hand accounts from even older folks) the relative cold of the 1970s, which was preceded by the relative heat of the 1930s, which was of course
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by southern_cross 7y ago
IIRC, the full extent of what was actually going on in Germany didn't become apparent until near the end of the war, as Allied troops started liberating the concentration camps. Even Germans who lived near those camps claimed to not kn
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by southern_cross 7y ago
The "lost $200B" refers to market value (capitalization), which these days is mostly smoke and mirrors anyway - so not actual losses in a "profit and loss" kind of way. Also, other articles have gone into great detail ab
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by southern_cross 7y ago
I know HN likes to pretend that it holds things to a higher standard, but in the past I've seen censorship rates of up to 50% on similar threads. (That is, such a thread might show that it has 100 comments, but only 50 are still viewab
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by southern_cross 7y ago
Doing just a few minutes of deep breathing exercises usually makes my blood pressure drop dramatically. It's hard to keep this habit up, though, but I know that there are apps and devices available to help you out here. This isn't
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by southern_cross 7y ago
An IT recruiter type recently told me that while January and February hiring demand was just fine, March demand was simply abysmal for whatever reasons, only to have things bounce back again in April. News stories (if you believe those) are
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by southern_cross 7y ago
So they originally stole these seeds, or at least acquired them through some other illicit means, and are now trying to hide behind local laws which allow them to save seeds from one harvest to the next. PepsiCo probably isn't the bad
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by southern_cross 7y ago
Uh, removing trees is apparently what initiated the melting of the Batagaika crater, the scary effects of which are shown in the photograph. And allowing grazing will not only remove much of the remaining ground cover but will also cause so
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by southern_cross 7y ago
Pretty much as soon as temperatures reach the point where permafrost naturally starts melting, then they've also reached the point (or soon will) where local flora (including microorganisms) start soaking up all or most of any emitted
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by southern_cross 8y ago
Don't forget, though, that the U.S. and North Korea are officially still at war, since no peace treaty was ever signed. So pin a cyber attack against a U.S. entity on N.K. and there you are!
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by southern_cross 8y ago
On an individual basis, sure, the smaller systems are more cost effective. But in the aggregate large systems just blow them away, in general. I know of a local mega corporation which has been steadily moving off of their "expensive&qu
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by southern_cross 8y ago
Neither of those films is about global warming.
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by southern_cross 8y ago
One word: Waterworld https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterworld
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by southern_cross 8y ago
You might find this helpful. I'll probably use it for review myself, before I take the certification test. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19557489
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by southern_cross 8y ago
There have been potential hints of life on Mars since at least the 1970s. But at this point, even if life were actually confirmed there it might be less a matter of "Oh great, we've found life on Mars!" and more a matter of &
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by southern_cross 8y ago
No doubt yet another article about renewables which ignores the fact that nameplate capacity is not at all the same as average actual capacity. To wit, average actual capacity is often only about 1/4 of nameplate capacity. So take
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by southern_cross 8y ago
I wonder how many people realize that banning "semi-automatic weapons", if taken at face value, pretty much means banning anything other than your old-fashioned, bolt-action rifle. For example, in the U.S. it would probably mean b
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by southern_cross 8y ago
I use outline.com to read articles like this.
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by southern_cross 8y ago
Agreed. They're probably all pretty much guilty as charged, but it's not right for these folks to be losing jobs and such without having yet been convicted.
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by southern_cross 8y ago
Funny you should mention "hot, dry, things burn". I once did a little digging into the matter, and it turns out that once ignition temperature is reached, the difference between a fresh green leaf igniting vs. a dry brown one is o
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by southern_cross 8y ago
If go back a bit further you'll find that (for example) one of the big, deadly wildfires from a couple of years ago was almost identical to a wildfire that happened in that same area back in the 1960s (IIRC). And during that earlier fi
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by southern_cross 8y ago
Maybe you've seen something different, but so far I've only seen one news report stating that the reason the shooter moved on to a second location (at least 40 victims) from his first location (at least 9 victims) is because someo
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by southern_cross 8y ago
Locally, a community recycling center is in the process of closing down. This after having had its pickup and processing costs approach $100 a ton now. Since the "tipping fee" at the local dump is only about a third of that, guess
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by southern_cross 8y ago
I have relatives in Texas who a few years back were being told by climate experts that drought (where local reservoirs and other bodies of water had sunk to dangerously low levels) was the new normal. Many folks who had built homes near suc
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by southern_cross 8y ago
New information (to me anyway) and I didn't see it mentioned here yet. Apparently the MCAS was put into place to begin with in order to deal with a potential "imbalance" situation created by attaching new, bigger engines to a
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by southern_cross 8y ago
Boeing certainly hasn't been inspiring a lot of confidence lately, given that decisions like this: https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/boein... have apparently been leading to decisions lik
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by southern_cross 8y ago
Throughout my school career I was a top student in math, generally enjoying it and even sometimes just doing math for fun of it. (I still do this on occasion.) But probably the single most useful math class I ever took was "Practical
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by southern_cross 8y ago
The core code base dates back to the System/38, which was released in 1979. You might expect to find a whole series of older to newer dates in copyright notices for the AS/400 (which is not its correct name now, and hasn't be
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by southern_cross 8y ago
I followed a similar protocol, but then I ran into a situation where good discipline kind of went out the window during "the great outsourcing". So when recently updated code had problems, because my info was the last actually pro

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